SIR, - I THINK it is time that pensioners and the disabled in the UK were given television licences free of charge.
Why should pensioners pay the same as millionaires?
Some countries don't even require TV licences, but the BBC seem to throw licence fee cash around like confetti.
There are dozens of ways the BBC could save money, such as only broadcasting on BBC2 from 5.30pm to 10.30pm each day.
Surely this would save millions of pounds which could then enable pensioners and the disabled to have free television licences.
Also, there would probably be enough of a saving to allow the cost of licences to be reduced for everyone else.
The Government is always saying it is short of money, but it is spending £2 billion on a Millennium Dome which the majority of people do not seem to want.
Mr Powell,
Abingdon Street,
Blackpool.
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